Class in some countries is about the past; you can be a shabby aristocrat if your grandfather was the Earl of Whatevershire. In American policy discussions, class is often implicitly about the present — where you lie in the income and wealth distributions this year. But on some level, everyone knows that class in America is really about the future.
You might also like
The third one was around the destabilization of the middle class of the West. So if you have a rapid sort of outsourcing and a collapse of manufacturing, then the point of view was you're going to have a populist response. And I think we've seen that play out.
Evan Smith — Decoder with Nilay Patel
This misdiagnosis costs billions of dollars and causes serious health problems, so why hasn't it been fixed?
Freakonomics Radio
If you rob one child of their potential, that's a tragedy. But to do it to a billion kids, that changes the trajectory of humanity.
TED